Bangalore,
India, August 31, 2016 – Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in
high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced that it is
expanding its Indian operations to further drive the growth of the
network security market and strengthen its position in
enterprise/infrastructure WiFi solutions.

This year alone,
Gartner forecasts that 6.4 billion connected things will be in use
worldwide in 2016, up 30 percent from 2015. The figure will hit 20.8
billion by 2020. While a majority of businesses is already leveraging
the advantages of connected IoT (Internet of Things) devices, 92% of
security professionals are concerned about the security challenges posed
by these billions of devices.

Developing Global WiFi Technologies The
Fortinet Innovation Centre in Bangalore is the company’s largest
R&D facility outside North America. Its R&D team has influenced
WiFi standards, obtained multiple patents and conducted pivotal
engineering work to develop Fortinet’s enterprise/infrastructure WiFi
solutions. The team at the Fortinet Innovation Centre will develop
state-of-the-art algorithms that secure large enterprise networks
running mobile and IoT devices, and location-based services.

Inaugurating
the Innovation centre at Bangalore, Patrice Perche, senior executive
vice president, Worldwide Sales and Support at Fortinet said, “Today,
most connected devices use WiFi as their default connectivity standard.
With the proliferation of IoT, seamlessly blending WiFi access with
network protection is an integral part of the Fortinet Security Fabric.
With the WiFi industry growing at double-digit rates, the research
activities carried out by this team are highly relevant not only in the
Indian market but all over the world”.

“In Bangalore, we are building enterprise class
WiFi systems that seamlessly onboard and switch customers between WiFi
and LTE networks,” said Kishore Reddy, Vice President of Engineering
& Country Manager, Fortinet Innovation Centre. “Our research team
will also provide business intelligence to customers who have very large
on-premise WiFi deployments. The investments to expand the R&D
infrastructure here augment Fortinet’s plans to increase its share in
the global wireless market.”

The WiFi research facility adds to
the vendor’s Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) R&D team in
Hyderabad, which builds the hardware logic for its DDoS attack
mitigation appliances.

India Technical Assistance Centre Extends Support to Europe, Middle East and AfricaFortinet’s
expanded team of highly skilled support engineers provide advanced
support and professional services to customers in EMEA and SAARC. The
Advanced Support Services team will provide post-sales support to
customers through regular proactive activity reporting, and assignment
of designated support engineers or service delivery managers to manage
complex and critical deployments. With Fortinet Professional Services,
customers can request the services of offsite or onsite consultants to
design, install and migrate security platforms. With direct access to
Fortinet’s developers and support, these engineers will ensure a timely
and seamless service experience for customers.

Dedicated Vertical and Regional TeamsFortinet
is strengthening its presence in the Indian market with the appointment
of domain specialists to provide network security expertise to every
major industry – Government, Telecom, Healthcare, BFSI, Retail,
Manufacturing and Education. In the longer term, Fortinet plans to
conduct regionalised training and threat updates for customers and
partners across the country.

About FortinetFortinet (NASDAQ:
FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government
organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with
intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and
the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the
borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet
Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to
address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked,
application, cloud or mobile environments. More than 280,000 customers
worldwide trust Fortinet to protect their businesses.